Getting Started with Azure



I recently took a 4 day training course on Azure Administration with the curriculum covering many aspects in the AZ-103 certification.  The specifics of the class can be found here https://www.globalknowledge.com/us-en/course/178424/microsoft-azure-administrator-az-103/.  Prior to taking this course I have had zero experience with either Azure, AWS, or cloud infrastructure in general.  I've heard of high-level concepts and done some reading on my own, but no tangible hands-on action with either provider.

One thing from that course which is openly available are the lab materials.  I found them to be very helpful for me to get some practical experience working with Azure and understanding some of the main concepts of cloud infrastructure.

Prerequisites 

In order to run the labs in Azure you will need one of the following:

Lab Materials

Once you have access into Azure, you can navigate to https://github.com/MicrosoftLearning/AZ-103-MicrosoftAzureAdministrator which is where all of the lab instructions and lab module files exist.  I pulled the repo locally since the majority of the modules have you uploading template files, and I found it to be easier when i had the files locally on the machine I was using to connect to Azure.  Once you have everything situated, navigate to https://portal.azure.com and get started!

The module files will include templates and parameters in JSON format to build out cloud infrastructure necessary to perform the tasks in the module.  It also includes Powershell commands to tear everything down.

Again, these were helpful to me in understanding and working practically with some of the core concepts of Azure.  Thank you to the Azure Administration Courseware Team for making these publicly available!  Hopefully they help you too!

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